AST201H1 Lecture Notes - Orbital Period, Anti-Gravity, Fundamental Interaction

• School: UTSG
• Department: Astronomy & Astrophysics
• Course: AST201H1
• Professor: Marija Stankovic

Document Summary

France: cave paintings from 18,000 bc may suggest knowledge of lunar. Scientific thinking, study of physical world, branch of science, systematic body of knowledge, something studied or performed methodically, knowledge, technical terms and concepts. observation and trial-and-error experiments. Scientific thinking is a fundamental part of our nature. Scientific thinking is a way of learning about nature through careful. The simpler solution is most likely to be correct. Ancient greeks thought that the world (universes around us). Stars so far away don"t actually move that much or at all. Live through thousand of years to see the constellations. We know that not everything revolves around the earth. Based on believes, not really using critical mind. For thousands of years, astronomers insisted on the pythagorean ideal of circular motion. To say that mars don"t just go around the earth but in a smaller circle that goes around the earth.